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Collection Number:
00517Collection Title: Miscellaneous Papers

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This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival
material held in the Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are
physically available in our reading room, and not digitally available
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The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by
provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of
sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers,
invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly
from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence.

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Restrictions to Use

No restrictions unless noted in individual unit descriptions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants,
as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Miscellaneous Papers #517, Southern Historical Collection,
The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

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Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or
confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy
laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. §
132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of
State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.).
Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to
identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent
of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under
common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's
private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable
person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no
responsibility.

The following terms from
Library of Congress Subject
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suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the
entire collection; the terms do
not usually represent
discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or
items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's
online catalog.

The collection consists of single or small groupings of items arranged in units by
provenance. Included are tax forms, records of accounts, slave lists and bills of
sale, land patents, schedules of debt, wills, marriage licenses, naturalization papers,
invitations, proclamations, commissions, sermons, speeches, and reminiscences, predominantly
from North Carolina, Virginia, and other southern states. There is little correspondence.

Document entitled "Copy King's Instruction to the Governor No. 109 - Respecting Indian Lands," giving instructions from King George III to the royal governors not to approve grants
of land reserved to Indians and forbidding enroachment upon Indian lands, circa 1760-1775.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the David L. Swain Papers (#706) in August
1960.

Two documents relating to colonial North Carolina. One is a proclamation, circa 1768-1771,
by William Tryon repealing a law of the colony of North Carolina passed in 1767, under
orders from the royal government in England. The other is an unsigned statement, circa
1769-1770, by several freeholders of Orange County, N.C., asserting the fitness of
Edmund Fanning to represent the county in the General Assembly and defending him from
the criticisms of others. The latter document appears to be a draft, as a slightly
different version appears in
State Records, VIII, 230-231.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the David L. Swain Papers (#706) in August
1960.

Message from William Tryon to the North Carolina House of Assembly, circa 1771, accompanying
estimates of the expenses of the troops "assembled at Hillsborough to protect and preserve the Public Peace" to suppress the Regulators. The actual estimates of expenses are not present. The
message is in the handwriting of Tryon's secretary, but is signed by Tryon.

Acquisition Information: Received from Winston Broadfoot of Wilmington, N.C., in September
1957.

Warrant, 19 March 1789, for payment to Captain John Collet, late governor of Fort
Johnston in North Carolina, of 100 pounds sterling as His Majesty's Royal Bounty,
in consideration of Collet's services.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Institute of Government in August 1960.

"Indenture tripartite," 1789, an instrument of assignment by Christopher Rolleston of London, England, surviving
partner of the late Edward Neufville of Bristol, England, of the firm of Neufville
and Rolleston, merchants and exporters and importers, to various attorneys acting
for the creditors of Neufville and Rolleston. The indenture explains that difficulties
in collecting debts had arisen as a result of the American Revolution and that Edward
Neufville had journeyed to Carolina in 1780 to try to collect on these debts, returning
to England in 1788 without having had much success.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from University of North Carolina Papers in 1
July 1963.

Accounts of Thomas Nelson Esquire, Collector at York Town for the first, second, third,
and fourth quarters of the year 1808. Nelson seems to have been a Collector of Customs
at Yorktown, Va., and thus an official of the United States. The document consists
of comments on accounts of Nelson by an unknown official, probably an auditor, of
the United States Treasury.

Acquisition Information: Received from David Lockett of Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1977.

Sermon on I Samuel 3:4, October 1817, no author or place indicated, 23 pages. This
sermon apparently was delivered to a group of young people; its themes are the ways
God calls young people and the advantages of responding to this call. It apparently
was changed and extended somewhat for use at a funeral. A notation on the cover reads
"B.B. October, 1817 and January 27, 1822 at N. Reed's funeral."

Online catalog terms:

Two items relating to Alfred M. Slade of Williamston, Martin County, N.C., who served
as Martin County's representative in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1821 and
later was appointed United States consul to Buenos Aires, Argentina. One is a bill,
2 September 1822, from Slade to Joseph Griffin for brandy and other supplies. The
second is a statement with receipt attached of Slade about "my business with John A. Smithwick," circa 7 March 1827. The attached receipt, dated 27 October 1826 and signed by Ezner
Cornell of Poplar Point, Martin County, N.C., records a payment made to Smithwick.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from University of North Carolina Papers in July
1963.

Legal opinion, 15 February 1823, by George Caines (1771-1825) of New York, on the
right of a Mr. Hackley to receive land in Florida from the Duke of Aragon when Florida
was Spanish territory and Hackley not a Spanish citizen.

Two articles of agreement relating to slaves and slave trading. One, 2 May 1831, is
between William Townes, Mecklenburg County, Va., and Alfred Townes, Hopkins County,
Ky., regarding Alfred's dealings in the slave market. The other, 20 September 1831,
is among William, Alfred, and Joseph H. Townes, establishing a partnership concerning
the buying and selling of slaves.

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Petition, circa 1840s, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of
North Carolina from the citizens of Lincolnton, N.C., protesting attempts by the county
to move the county seat elsewhere. The petition is signed by William Slade (1807-1852?)
and John Franklin Hope (1821-1888), a Lincoln County lawyer and assemblyman.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the former Henry Elias Faison Papers.

A document, 19-20 October 1846, containing poems signed by John McAlister and, on
the same sheet, a warrant by him for James T. McAlister to answer a complaint of James
N. Nurner of Cumberland County, N.C.

Acquisitions Information: Transferred from University of North Carolina Papers in
July 1963.

A letter, 10 April 1848, of William H. Haywood, Democratic United States senator from
North Carolina (1843-1846) to Mr. Howerton about a legal case called
Lewis Thompson versus Alexander S. Moore and Thomas Howerton.

Acquisitions Information: Transferred from the Edward Porter Alexander Papers in May
1961.

Military scrip, 1856, in the amount of $50.00, issued by the Republic of Nicaragua
during the Filibuster War to A. Young, and signed by William Walker, president of
the Republic, and by Alex Jones, paymaster general.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from Bert Neville of Selma, Ala., in November 1959.

Two school bills from Greensboro, N.C. One is a bill, 24 December 1857, from Greensboro
Female College in Greensboro, N.C., to Louisa E. Mitchell. The other is a bill, 22
December 1859, from Edgeworth Female Seminary, Greensboro, N.C., to Sallie J. Dumas
(Richard Wooten, guardian).

Acquisition Information: Received from Charles V. Cheney of Charlotte, N.C., in January
1964.

Items relating to a lawsuit instigated by Thomas P. Martin, the surviving partner
of the firm of Martin & Franklin, tobacco manufacturers, of Richmond, Va. The suit
was brought in 1841 to recover thousands of dollars due for tobacco consigned to Charles
Essenwein & Company, commission merchants of New York and Philadelphia. Essenwein
had become insolvent, and the tobacco had been sold to John A. Warner & Company of
Philadelphia. Included are a 32-page printed copy of the case before the United States
Circuit Court for the District of Philadelphia, Third Circuit, with handwritten notes;
and a 30-page document containing depositions, accounts, and other exhibits in the
case.

Acquisition Information: Facsimile and pamphlet are from the Lakeside Press, Chicago,
Ill., and distributed by a department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in January 1965. Autobiography facsimile added October 1965.

Facsimile copy (2 pages) of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863, written in his hand.
The original, held by the State of Illinois, was exhibited at the 1964 New York World's
Fair. Also included is a pamphlet about the Gettysburg Address, also from R.R. Donnelly
& Sons. There is also an undated pamphlet issued by the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States containing a facsimile of an undated holograph/autobiographical
sketch of Abraham Lincoln.

Three items relating to Joseph Staley of Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Ga.: naturalization
papers, 9 March 1859, of Staley, a former resident of Lancashire, England, as certified
by the Superior Court of Baldwin County, Ga.; a deed, 30 October 1863, for a square
in the city of Milledgeville burial ground; and Staley's oath of allegiance to the
United States, 1 July 1865.

Acquisition Information: Received from John T. MacQueen of Chapel Hill, N.C., in March
1977.

Call from Union and Carthage Presbyterian churches, Moore County, N.C., 1 September
1866, to Martin McQueen to become pastor of these churches. The call notes that McQueen's
qualifications were satisfactory and that he was elected by a congregational meeting
in each church with a salary of $800.00 per year. The call is signed by 24 elders
and deacons of the two churches.

Acquisition Information: Photocopy was made at the University of North Carolina library
on 21 February 1963 from a manuscript lent by Joseph Frederick Welker Jr. of Julian,
N.C., a University of North Carolina student.

George William Welker (1817-1894), was a Pennsylvanian who emigrated to North Carolina
in 1841. He was a minister of the German Reformed Church; pastor of the Mount Hope
Church in eastern Guilford County, N.C.; and a member of the North Carolina consitutional
convention, 1868. The item is a manuscript ascribed to George Welker. Part 1 appears
to be a campaign speech for election to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention
of 1868. Part 2 is an essay on the values and needs of education, particularly the
education of women.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Lindsay C. Warren Papers in September
1966.

A biographical sketch of Paul C. Hutton (1875-1934). Typed copy of obituary notice
for Paul C. Hutton from the
Army and Navy Journal, 3 February 1934. Hutton was a colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States
Army, surgeon of the 6th Corps Area, and a native of North Carolina.

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Acquisition Information: Received from Nancy Bruce of UNC Health Sciences Library
in 1984.

Correspondence, photocopies of newspaper clippings, articles, reminiscences, and photographs
collected by William Sprunt, M.D., of Chapel Hill, N.C., relating to the early history
of X-ray and radium technology in North Carolina, the physicians who pioneered its
use, and the North Carolina Radiological Society. Included are clippings and other
items relating to Osmond L. Barringer, who took the first X-ray in North Carolina
in 1896.

Acquisition Information: Received from the National Humanities Center in Durham, N.C.,
in 1984.

Cassette tape,
Soundings, from the National Humanities Center, on the subject of
Politics in the American South, Parts One and Two. Includes a discussion by historians, political scientists, and
columnists. Roundtable members include Dewey Grantham, William Havard, George Tindall,
Edwin Yoder, and John Hope Franklin. Also, four printed items related to the tape.

Acquisition Information: Received from Nancy Bruce of the UNC Health Sciences Library
in June 1984.

Three bills relating to Newsom J. Pittman (b. 1818) of North Carolina. Pittman graduated
from the University of Pennsylvania medical school in 1839. He served as surgeon during
the Civil War. Following the war, Pittman earned a national reputation, specializing
in gynecology. He was alive in 1890. One bill, 19 January 1859, is to Pittman; the
other two bills, 29 March 1858 and 3 February 1859, are from Pittman to a Dr. George
Howard.

Acquisition Information: Received from James Mason Grove of Williamsburg, Va. in April
1986.

Tappahannock Seminary on the Rappahannock River or Tappahannock Female Seminary: The
School and Register of Students of Mrs. Lucy Yates Wellford Gray, 1818-1860
, compiled by James Mason Grove (Williamsburg, Va., 1981), 42 pages. Listing of students
and biographical sketch of its founder, Lucy Yates Wellford Gray (1781-1860).

Acquisition Information: Purchased from Louis Ginsberg of Petersburg, Va., in November
1986.

Four signed articles of agreement between the District 10 school board in Henderson
County, N.C., and hired teachers. The agreements detail teachers' responsibilities,
wages, and length of tenure. They are with Thomas J. Case (9 August 1851), Henry C.
Garren (13 January 1844), Eli Rhoades (1848), and Isaac Stover (12 August 1845).

Acquisition Information: All items except the newspaper transferred from Miscellaneous
Broadsides in August 1987. The newspaper was received from William L. Pippin Jr. of
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., in July 1969.

Six items: typed copy of a statement relating to the laying of the cornerstone of
Saint James Church, Wilmington, N.C., in 1839; a train schedule, New York to Charleston,
S.C., undated; a Central Railroad of Georgia map and time table, undated; a T.C. &
B.G. Worth circular reporting prices for commodities in Wilmington, N.C., 1860; "A Little Bit of History of the Claim of Georgia, Known as the Trezevant Claim" (1883) about claims against Georgia for loans made in 1777; a copy of the
Moultrie Observer (Georgia), dated 24 February 1968. The newspaper contains a 16-page supplement about
the 75th anniversary of the Georgia Northern Railway.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill Law Library in August 1977.

Letters, minutes, notes, and other papers of Eugene Gressman (1917- ), Kenan Professor
of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (retired July 1987), chiefly
concerning Gressman's activities with the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure
of the Judicial Conference of the United States in the development of the uniform
rules of federal appellate procedure.

Acquisition Information: Received from an unknown donor in February 1988.

One plat and several letters, deeds, and indentures relating to land in Alamance County,
N.C. Some items pertain to lands held by Thomas Graham and his descendants, especially
John A. Graham (fl. 1917).

Acquisition Information: Received from Gerald L. Welsh of Mercer Island, Wash., in
November 1987.

Mostly letters to Charles Fairfield from family members and friends. Letters from
his brother George N. Fairfield, an officer in the Union Army, discuss the situation
in Maryland at the beginning of the Civil War and at several federal prisons, including
Camp Morton and Camp Randall. Also included are one letter to Fairfield's mother from
George Fairfield and one to his father reporting George Fairfield's death.

Acquisition Information: Received from Elizabeth Scott Carrington of Burlington, N.C.,
in February 1984.

Typed carbon copy of the autobiography of George L. Carrington (1895-1972) of Burlington,
N.C. Carrington was a well-known surgeon and also a benefactor to education programs
in the Burlington area. The autobiography is entitled "Who? Me? Memoirs of a Small Town Surgeon." Also included are clippings about Carrington and his wife Elizabeth.

Acquisition Information: Received from Frank Grubbs of Meredith College, Raleigh,
N.C., in December 1982.

Letters, 1907-1920, to Mary Shannon Smith, chair (1908-1918) of the History Department
at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., concerning her research on the Civil War and
Reconstruction in North Carolina. Correspondents include William E. Dodd of the University
of Chicago and Nathaniel W. Stephenson of the College of Charleston.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Hill and Grosvenor Family Papers in
October 1988.

Correspondence and other items relating to James S. Robinson's drugstore established
in Memphis, Tenn., in 1869. Correspondence includes letters from people in Arkansas,
Mississippi, and Tennessee inquiring about treatments for various health and beauty
problems. Several of the letters concern Robinson's Infant Food, a "cocoa wheat food" manufactured by Robinson's pharmacy. Also included is a typed statement by Ward concerning
the relationship between physicians and pharmacists.

Facsimile of the first patent granted in the United States to Samuel Hopkins "...in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process... ." Item includes a label reading, "First United States Patent Grant, July 31, 1790."

Acquisition Information: Received from Daniel W. Patterson of Chapel Hill, N.C., in
1986.

Eight leaves found in a volume of poems by Henry Timrod (1828-1867). "Unrequited," a poem attributed to Henry Seabrook of Charleston, S.C., appears on the first three
leaves. The last five pages contain an appreciation of Timrod.

Acquisition Information: Received from Gary Freeze of Chapel Hill, N.C., in May 1987.

Materials relating to the 1980 North Carolina Democratic primary election. Items are
chiefly responses to a letter sent out by Gary Freeze over the signature of the chair
of the North Carolina Committee of the Carter/Mondale Presidential Committee, Inc.

Acquisition Information: Received from George E. London of Raleigh, N.C., in July
1989.

Paper entitled "Beginnings of the Revolution in North Carolina" by Mary Owen Graham, president of Peace Institute (Raleigh, N.C.), 1916-1924. The
paper is marked "Written for 'Liberty Hall' Chapter, D.A.R., By Mary Graham, March 5, 1922." Also included is a 1967 letter from Archie K. Davis to the donor about Graham's paper.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Institute of Government in February
1982.

Three letters, 9 August 1821, 21 February 1822, and 8 November 1822, from Nancy Peters
Sanders, a student at Salem Academy in Salem, N.C., to her brother Baldy in Smithfield,
N.C. Sanders wrote about her general health, inquired about the health of family members,
and sought guidance on what course of studies to pursue.

Acquisition Information: Received from Cornelia Lafferty Springs of Summerville, S.C.,
in July 1989.

Diary (1 volume, 65 pages) of John Wilson Lafferty of Davidson, N.C., describing his
emotions upon graduating from Davidson College in 1883; discussing his experiences
in Chapel Hill, N.C., while attending the University of North Carolina in the summer
of 1885; and his subsequent year of teaching in Mars Bluff, S.C. Lafferty expressed
doubts about his suitability as a teacher and described how these doubts, combined
with the burning of his schoolhouse, led to his leaving teaching for the Presbyterian
ministry. In 1884, he wrote of his theological studies in Columbia, S.C., including
the controversy within the church over James Woodrow, professor of science at Columbia
Seminary and Woodrow Wilson's uncle, and his views on evolution.

Acquisition Information: Received from Eleanor Spencer Butz and Sidney Thompson Butz
of Charlotte, N.C., in January 1990.

Diary of Martha Ann Hancock Wheat and one letter to her. Martha Ann Hancock Wheat
was born in 1823 in Bedford County, Va. Around 1846, she married Zachariah J. Wheat,
a widower, with whom she had seven children. The family lived on a small farm in the
vicinity of Lynchburg, Va. Diary entries begin around 1850 with Wheat summarizing
her religious experiences. She never specified to which denomination she belonged,
but often expressed her concern for "truly devoted Christians" of all sects. Through 1860, most of the diary entires are musings on the transitory
nature of human life. Entries between 1861 and 1863 record Wheat's thinking on the
tragedy of war. Having abandoned her diary late in 1863, Wheat took it up again for
one last entry in 1886, in which she listed persons of her acquaintance who did not
survive the Civil War. Diary entries take up 107 pages; an additional 98 pages consist
of poems, hymns, and Bible verses. The letter, dated 7 June 1845, from Zachariah J.
Wheat to Martha Ann Hancock, acknowledges her acceptance of his proposal of marriage.

Facsimile of a genealogical chart tracing the descendants of Thomas Smith (1648-1694),
a governor and landgrave of the Province of Carolina, through to the Holmes family.
The chart includes his grandson the Reverend Josiah Smith, a South Carolina clergyman.
The chart was created by Francis Simmons Holmes of Charleston, S.C., and is dated
August 1874.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the North Carolina Collection in April 1990.

Three letters, 6 December 1869, 25 April 1871, and undated from Zacharias W. Haynes
of Raleigh, N.C., to his parents in Yadkin County, N.C., and one letter, 19 March
1868, from Haynes's father John to his son. Zacharias W. Haynes was a teacher at the
North Carolina Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, apparently in charge
of the Colored Department of the school for 20 years. In the 1874 letter, Haynes briefly
described conditions at the school; in the 1869 letter, he mentioned that the state
owed him $80.00, which he could not hope to collect before the next year since the
treasury had "gone dry". Other letters deal chiefly with family matters.

Acquisition Information: Received from R. Kelly Bryant Jr. of Durham, N.C., in June
1990.

Volume compiled by R. Kelly Bryant containing photocopies of materials relating to
Geer Cemetery in Durham, N.C. The purpose of the volume was to raise support for a
project aimed at ensuring maintenance of the cemetery and reseaching its history.
Geer Cemetery was a principal burial ground for the city's African-American population
from the 1870s through the 1930s. It apparently had ties to the White Rock Baptist
Church.

Acquisition Information: Received from Mrs. Smith Brodie of Scotland Neck, N.C., in
November 1974.

Photographic copy of a daguerreotype or tintype of several University of North Carolina
marshals, including Richard Henry Smith, 1861. The copy was made in 1974. Also included
is a typed label about the photograph. Richard Henry Smith attended the University
of North Carolina, 1859-1862, and received his degree in 1911.

Acquisition Information: Received from Lawrence London of Chapel Hill, N.C., in December
1990.

Photocopy of the travel journal (20 pages) that Episcopal clergyman Thomas Wright
kept on his trip from North Carolina to Memphis, Tenn., around 1832. Upon his arrival
in Memphis, Wright organized the first Epsicopal mission in the city. The journal
is chiefly a record of Wright's route, a chronicle of services he conducted along
the way, and brief descriptions of the places he visited.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the North Carolina Collection in October
1991.

Volume of Samuel J. Brim, a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives
from Surry County in 1901. The volume (approximately 50 pages) contains notes for
Brim's political speeches, most of which concern the possibility that African-Americans
might gain control of the government through their right to vote.

Acquisition Information: Received from Richard N.L. Andrews of Chapel Hill, N.C.,
in October 1991.

Photocopy of the diary kept by Richard N.L. (Pete) Andrews in 1963 while he worked
on Aaron Henry's Mississippi gubernatorial campaign. The diary records activities
of Andrews, a student at Yale at the time, and others as they staged a "mock voter registration" aimed at assessing how many people would vote in the election if they were not blocked
from doing so by the state's restrictive voter registration practices. Students from
Yale were recruited and led by Allard Lowenstein.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from Hawthorne Village Antiques of Scottsdate,
Ga., in June 1993.

Two items relating to the Mosteller family, probably of Cass County or Bartow County,
Ga. One item, with entries dated 1855-1860, lists "Work for D. [and B. H.] Mosteller on thrashers." The other, dated 1856-1865, contains information about Daniel Mosteller's estate,
several promissory notes, and notes for a Masonic ritual.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N.C., in June
1993.

Papers relating to J.R. Young and family of Henderson, N.C. Included are a promissory
note, an agent contract with the Equitable Life Assurance Society, a letter from D.
L. Russell dated 8 April 1892, discussing local Republican Party politics, a letter
from A. C. Zollicoffer dated 31 October 1892, and a handwritten copy of a deposition
from Mrs. Aurelia Young, dated 2 February 1893.

Acquisition Information: Received from Elizabeth V. Moore of Edenton, N.C., and Mrs.
Carter R. Rowe of Fredericksburg, Va., in July 1993.

Items relating to
Oliveiro versus University of North Carolina (1878). This case involved Simao da Rocha Oliveiro, originally of Portugal, who died
in Edenton, N.C., where he owned property that was at the center of a legal dispute
between the University and Oliveiro's Portuguese heirs. Included is a letter, dated
14 February 1866, in which the University of North Carolina is described as broke
and heavily in debt.

Acquisition Information: Received from Margaret Lowry Holt of Bryn Mawr, Pa., in October
1991.

Correspondence and statements, 1952-1957 and undated, of Lawrence Shackleford Holt
Jr. (b. 1883), Episcopalian and retired textile executive of Asheville, N.C., concerning
immortality and other theological matters. Correspondence consists of carbon copies
of 15 letters by Holt to professors of religion, religious figures, Episcopal priests,
and others, and 13 originals of letters to Holt, most in response to his letters.
The statements consist of spiritual autobiography and descriptions of Holt's beliefs.

Acquisition Information: Received from Dennis W. Cross of the Arts & Sciences Foundation,
Incorporated, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in January 1994.

Letters, 1969-1978, and other items relating to May Belle Penn Jones, who received
an M.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1924; taught at the North
Carolina College for Women, 1952-1957; and held many positions in business, including
chief executive officer of Mark Cross Incorporated. Letters are from Louis Round Wilson
of the University of North Carolina Library, Albert Coates of the Institute of Government,
and Coates's wife Gladys Hall Coates, chiefly outlining Jones's activities and nominating
her for various types of recognition.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N.C., in January
1994.

Letters and a few receipts, 1890-1913, relating to George W. Norwood, who worked for
North Carolina Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes. Among the letters are a few relating
to the education of Norwood's sons at various schools, including Buie's Creek Academy
and Business College, and others touching on North Carolina Democratic Party politics,
including one, dated 1912, describing J.W. Bailey as a "gentleman & a rising man," who appears to have checked into a hotel with a woman who was not his wife. There
is one letter from J. Bryan Grimes about promotions within the Secretary of State's
office. There is also an unsubstantive letter from Josephus Daniels. Also included
are three letters dated 1922 from Alves Norwood Jefferson in McMinnville, Ore., to
Loula Hall Briggs in Raleigh, N.C., about Norwood family history.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N.C., in January
1994.

Deeds and a few receipts, 1808-1853, chiefly relating to land in Orange County, N.C.
Items, 1808-1810, are a deed and plat for Orange County land owned by James Birch.
The 1822 item is a deed for land owned by James Graham in Orange County. In 1849,
there is a letter to Thomas Graham about notes and securities, and, in 1851-1855,
there are five notes and receipts relating to James and Thomas Graham's purchases
of farm machinery, land, guano, and a slave. The connection between Birch and the
Grahams is unknown.

Acquisition Information: Purchased from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N.C., in January
1994 and September 1999.

Deeds and other items, 1856-1875, chiefly relating to land transactions of Jefferson
Fisher of Wake County, N.C., for land in Wake County. Also included are short typed
summaries of other Wake County land transactions as they appear in various official
registers.

Acquisition Information: Received from John B. Gilligan of Taylor, Tex., in July 1995.

Four letters relating to Hinton James, the first student to enroll at the University
of North Carolina; his sister Elizabeth James Pearsall; and her husband John Pearsall
(d. 1828). Included is a letter, 6 June 1828 from Patrick Barry in Salisbury, N.C.,
to Hinton James in Wilmington, N.C., about John Pearsall's ill health; a letter, 12
June 1828, from John Pearsall in Salisbury, N.C., to Elizabeth James Pearsall in Washington,
New Hanover County, N.C., about his ill health; a letter, 27 July 1828, from Elizabeth
James Pearsall to "Gentlemen," reacting to the news of John Pearsall's death, and an undated letter from Elizabeth
James Pearsall to John Pearsall in Covington, Tipton County, Tenn., about general
family matters. Also included are two family trees relating to the James family.

Acquisition Information: Received from Charles Paddock of Chapel Hill, N.C., October
1995.

A Blackwood family of Orange County, N.C., indenture, 1 March 1824, and a short letter,
12 January 1840, from J. Blackwood in Montgomery County, Ill., to David K. Blackwood
in Chapel Hill, N.C., giving routine family news.

Acquisition Information: Received from Sarah Davis of Louisburg, N.C., in April 1999.

Papers, 1779-1819, relating to Nash and Franklin counties, N.C. Most are deeds for
land. Also included are a few bills of sale for slaves and other items, including
an undated essay by Junius O'Brien, entitled "The Old North State."

Acquisition Information: Received from William and Vonna Graves of Chapel Hill, N.C.,
in May 2000.

Papers relating to slaves in antebellum North Carolina and Tennessee that were in
the possession of Howard Sapp of Lebanon, Ky. Included are the
John McClatchy vs. Carter Markam judgement from Buncombe County, N.C., 22 October 1807, with an attached warrant,
4 September 1809; a deed relating to Richard Burkes, Warren County, Tenn., June 1813;
bills of sale for slaves, Richard Burkes, seller, Warren County, Tenn., 19 September
1813, 23 July 1833, and 31 August 1833; and an account for smith work from R.P. Burkes,
1839.

Acquisition Information: Received from J. Douglas Mattox of Raleigh, N.C., in September
1999.

Survey, 1846, of 344 acres of land in Moore County, N.C., for Malcom M. Blue by Neven
Ray; survey, 1859, of 350 acres for Archibald Smith and 47 acres for Hardy Patterson
by Neven Ray; and undated essay, "An Elders son and his conduct on the Sabbath" by John Ray.

Acquisition Information: Received from Carl O. Penny of the New Orleans Museum of
Art, New Orleans, La., in October 1992.

Typescript article with annotations, "John Berry of Hillsboro, North Carolina," by Eva Ingersoll Gatling, and twelve photographs, apparently intended as illustrations
for the article. John Berry (1798-1870?) was, according to Gatling, "one of those almost anonymous builders who worked all his life within the confines
of his native state, building simply and directly to meet the needs of the people
among whom he lived." The article characterizes the style of the buildings known to have been built by
Berry. There are photographs of several of the buildings, including the Berry-McLarty
Porter house, Saint Matthew's Church, the Methodist Church, the First Baptist Church,
and the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C.; Saint Luke's Church in Salisbury,
N.C.; Smith Hall (now Playmakers Theater) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; Saint John's College (now Oxford Orphanage) in Oxford, N.C.; and a house on
the campus of Wake Forst University, Wake Forest, N.C.

Papers relating to slaves in antebellum North Carolina (specific locations unknown)
including those in the possession of the Mashborne family. Included are a report of
the division of slaves belonging to the estate of Thomas Mashborne, 10 December 1846;
a settlement of account of James M. Mashborne with his guardian Gardner Shepard with
amounts of slave hire and sales, 1847; a bill of sale for slaves of George W. Mashborne,
Owen Jarratt, seller, 3 June 1850; and a bill of sale for a slave named Dave belonging
to Gardner Shepard, guardian to James Mashborne, 1855. There are also other slave
documents, including an inventory of the estate of William Mills with a list of slaves
and other property, November 1772; a reward notice for apprehension and return of
slave named Nancy Elliot, about twelve years old, 23 August 1848; an audit of the
accounts of William Herring, guardian of Charity Carter, 18 January 1851; and bill
of sale for slaves to F.D. Thomas, 26 April 1858. Also included is a weaving book
used by Lea Dicy Murphrey, daughter of Turner Murphrey and Absaly Baker.

Acquisition Information: Received from Brian Davis of Raleigh, N.C., in November 2003.

Two slave bills of sale. One bill of sale, 12 February 1816, is from Bertie County,
N.C., for Jeffery, a male slave about 30 years old, for the sum of $450. William M.
Clark was the purchaser and William H. Hukstall was the seller. The other bill of
sale, 26 November 1860, is from Orange County, N.C., for Caroline, a female slave
about 20 years old, and Lewis, a male slave, about two years old, for the sum of $1001.
E.M. Holt was the purchaser and Robert Morris and others were the sellers.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Rare Book Collection in October 1983.

Document, 10 June 1844, from the British Consulate at the Hague, Netherlands, requesting
free passage for William Pitcairn Knowles Esquire "and his Lady," who were travelling through Europe. The sheet is signed by Knowles; it is also signed,
stamped, and dated by officials from various parts of Europe during the summer of
1844.

Acquisition Information: Addition, July 1961. This item apparently received with papers
from Alexander, Lawton, and Minis families, in the 1930s or 1940s. Its connection
with those papers is not evident.

Typescript copy of the will of Samuel L.M. Barlow of New York, written in 1877 and
proved in 1889. The copy is dated dated 1913. A memorandum on the margin (written
by Mrs. Watters of the Southern Historical Collection) connects this copy with property
of the "Barlow Mine, Dahlonega, Georgia."

Acquisition Information: Received from Mrs. A. A. Zollicoffer of Henderson, N.C.,
in February 1978.

Bankruptcy, tax, and shipping documents. Included are a bankruptcy warrant, 5 October
1868, for John B. William of Farmville, Mecklenburg City, Va.; a bankruptcy warrant,
19 March 1873, for Charles H. Robertson of Danville, Halifax City, Va.; a blank 1870
Virginia tax form; and undated shipping directions for goods bought in New York to
be sent to Arkansas.

Greenville Academy contract, undated but probably 19th century, of contractors John
Norcott, William Bernard, John C. Gorham, and Charles Greene with J.M. Lovejoy to
teach a school in Greenville, N.C., for twelve months. In the contract are details
of courses to be taught, length of term, days to be taught, number of pupils, and
tuition to be charged.

Acquisition Information: Transferred from the Samuel Spencer Papers in May 1960.

Land patent (14" x 13 1/2") to Edward Hewlin in Brunswick County, Va., 24 April 1758,
probably signed by John Blair, member of the Constitutional Convention (1787) and
associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.